4 February 2018. The Sanchi disaster is even worse than many initially expected, according to a chilling new report published by Britain's National Oceanography Centre that shows the ship's cargo - the equivalent of nearly 1 million barrels of ultra-light crude, plus its own fuel - snaking across the East China Sea into the northern Pacific, according to a series of visualizations created by Reuters.

4 February 2018. Private label food and beverage manufacturer TreeHouse Foods Inc. announced plans to close its ready-to-eat cereal plant in Battle Creek, MI in a press release Wednesday after the firm decided that continuing to operate the plant “would not be economically viable.”

4 February 2018. Bitcoin, the much-hyped cryptocurrency, made headlines recently for driving a surge in power use. Around the globe, digital entrepreneurs are ‘mining’ Bitcoins by solving complex math problems, using supercomputers to get the job done. Those supercomputers use a ton of power, which largely comes form coal- and gas-fired power plants spewing gobs of carbon pollution.

3 February 2018. On February 3, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the National Defense Forces (NDF) recaptured the villages of Tulayhat, Abu Kusur and Ma’saran from ISIS in the northeastern Hama countryside, according to the Hezbollah media wing in Syria. Four days ago, the SAA and its allies recaptured Al-Aww, Abyan and Jubb Zrayq villages south of the village of Ma’saran.

3 February 2018. More than four months after Hurricane Maria tore across Puerto Rico, over 450,000 people are still without power. For critical facilities like hospitals, the lack of electricity has meant cutting services and relying on generators until power is restored.

3 February 2018. Novel computational methods have helped create the most information-packed universe-scale simulation ever produced. The new tool provides fresh insights into how black holes influence the distribution of dark matter, how heavy elements are produced and distributed throughout the cosmos, and where magnetic fields originate.

2 February 2018. Indian Oil Corp Ltd plans to increase the capacity of its Panipat refinery by two thirds to 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) at a cost of 231.16 billion rupees rupees ($3.64 billion), the country's largest refiner said on Wednesday.